10–07–2023 Splice and Foam Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne A few weeks ago, Haris Giannouras visited the transformed space of Galerie Khoshbakht and wrote down his impressions on the sharp yet playful exhibition halbe sachen by Tom Hardwick-Allan & Stanislava Kovalcikova, with special attention given to the screening of Forugh Farrokhzad’s 1963 film The House is Black.
14–01–2021 Ballast der Republik Der Künstler und Autor Max Eulitz kommentiert die widersprüchliche Geschichte des Berliner Schlosses
16–07–2020 Free from Discourse Städelmuseum, Frankfurt For PASSE-AVANT the authors Luisa Del Prete, Naomi Rado and Demba Sanoh wrote an article about the current debate on the presentation of a racist painting by Georg Herold. In their text, which is accompanied by comments from James Gregory Atkinson, Nicholas Grafia and Geneviève Lassey, they reveal the extent to which this is not an isolated case in German museums and what it means to assume responsibility as an institution.
01–05–2020 Corona Chronicles Many of our friends and colleagues stay at home. A few of them because they are afraid of being infected, others to flatten the curve, but most of them because their jobs have been cancelled and exhibitions have been postponed. What happens to the people in the cultural world if it suddenly shuts down? What are the pitfalls and can there still be a productive potential within this crisis? PASSE-AVANT asked several friends that are affected by COVID-19 in different ways to share their perspectives. Read their stories.
01–04–2020 Open Letter From Cultural Workers in Belarus In an open letter, cultural workers respond to the events in Belarus related to the elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, and by the huge and unmotivated level of violence and aggression committed by the official authorities and law enforcement agencies against the people of our country.
